It’s the first stage outing for Van Outen since having her first child, a daughter, with Lee Mead, who is himself currently treading the boards in Wicked. The couple met on TV’s Any Dream Will Do, which Mead won and Van Outen judged. Van Outen’s other musical credits include Tell Me on a Sunday, Rent: Remixed, Chicago and Les Miserables.

Since finding fame on another Andrew Lloyd Webber TV competition, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, Siobhan Dillon, who will play Vivienne, has appeared in Grease in the West End and in tours of Can’t Smile Without You and Cabaret. Carley Stenson, who will play Margot, is best known as Steph Cunningham from Hollyoaks, a part she played for ten years, and has appeared in regional productions of Grease, The Boyfriend and Oliver!.

The musical comedy, which premiered on Broadway in April 2007, is based on the 2001 Hollywood film in which Reese Witherspoon played California sorority girl Elle Woods who follows her ex-boyfriend to Harvard Law School in an attempt to win him back.

Legally Blonde is directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. The musical has music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, book by Heather Hach, set design by David Rockwell, costume design by Gregg Barnes, lighting design by Kenneth Posner and Paul Miller, sound design by ACME Sound Partners and orchestrations by Christopher Jahnke.

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